[Waterluvian]

I think if you let what lives in your toolbox define you as a developer, you’re selling yourself short.

If you’re a decent engineer, learning a new library should be the boring part. It’s not like any of these libraries are introducing highly specific conceptual paradigms.

[ricardobeat]

Individually or in small projects you might be able to do whatever you want. Won’t help when you work in a large team, going against hundreds of minds inclined to follow trends and maintain the status quo, which is reality at almost any business.

The average developer doesn’t get to choose at all. This liberty was taken away from them in the name of “easier maintenance”, a “larger community”, “stability” (ha) and other ill-informed platitudes. This became a self-reinforcing cycle when companies started hiring for React experience.